It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Health Park, there was a great smell of pine as the Art Ease members made a wonderful selection of wreaths! Thanks to Beki creativeshift 🎄 #communitypride #artathehealthpark #weareknowlewest #ChristmasWreath

Excited to be involved in this initiative with a wonderful array of creative partners across the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority region. We’ll be supporting artists entering the #creativehealth sector

Exciting opportunity for an Arts and Humanities researcher within UK parliament.

This has been a joy to be part of. Amazing team of young people, #creative and #heritage practitioners learning together in true #coproduction

Collaboration is key, journey with people where they are. Voluntary sector is not free but there are great opportunities for community health if funded well 👏

There is an art ease paper exhibition at RWA now. It's not just any paper making it's knowle west paper making!😍 ⁦creativeshift⁩ ⁦RWA Bristol⁩ #weareknowlewest 🎨🖌️🖼️ instagram.com/p/C3NNoqHvvLT/…

Need a toolkit on collaborative work between young people (YP), artists, & cultural institutions to support programmes of creativity, wellbeing, and volunteering? culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/riro showcases the work we did with amazing YP John Wesley’s New Room with creativeshift Arts Council England

Here’s our vending machine of carefully curated activities 🤩 We hope this gives patients an enjoyable moment & some relaxation whilst possibly having a long-stay on Quantock. Fresh Arts artists have made various activity packs. Here’s a sneak peek of the one in there now!

#creativehealth #wellbeing #arts ⁦West of England Mayoral Combined Authority⁩

AmazIng! Thanks for getting the word out there and for your ongoing partnership which supports our work #health #communities Bristol Arts Development The National Academy for Social Prescribing

I'll be speaking at the International Social Prescribing Conference #ISPC2024 next week about my research on the emotional impact on artists of working with participants with challenging health or psychosocial conditions (tinyurl.com/JPFortierthesis)

Fabulous to be involved with Misfits Theatre in this splendid exhibition!

Thank you to Tim from Misfits Theatre for reading the ‘Dementia, how I see it’ poem which was created by The Misfits (an inspiring social theatre group for people with learning disabilities) & creativeshift #LearningDisabilitiesWeek #Dementia #FreshArts North Bristol NHS Trust

Delighted to be coproducing this event with our friends Bristol Beacon University of Bristol and #CultureWest

New research and review articles from Arts & Health Journal - take a look! On: narrative-based medicine interventions📚art therapy with refugee adolescents🎨psychodrama with LGBTQ+ young adults🌈coping with age-related crises through art making🧹music therapy in rural India 🎼& more🧵

Thanks Jane Willis … huge thanks to all who made this event possible including special thanks to our creativeGuides who gave their time to tell their powerful stories of how involvement in CH has positively impact their lives. You’re the magic and why we love doing this work

We were excited to Launch the Bristol #CreativeHealth Ecosystem map at the CHIA event Bristol Beacon last week. Let’s us know if you want to be part of it! instagram.com/p/DBZEqm-MNAk/…

Looking forward to read the special issue on Global Creative Health journals.sagepub.com/toc/rshi/144/5 and pleased to see our practice report about evaluation for our Kashmir project included artofhealing.org.uk UWE Psych Sciences Research UWE Psychology

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